This Is Why I Will Never Watch A Floyd Mayweather Fight

World renowned professional boxer Floyd Mayweather is the world’s highest paid athlete. What you may or may not know about him is that he finds himself among the ranks of Ray Rice, Jonathan Paul Koppenhaver, and other professional athletes who have been brutally abusive towards women.

According to a police report, Mayweather once grabbed the mother of his children by her hair and punched her in the head, several times. Punches from arguably, one of the world’s best boxers. Let the imagery of that sink in for a moment. If you have ever seen a Mayweather fight (I have not), you can picture what this brutality would look like. And, what’s worse, he did it right in front of their three children.

Additionally, he threatened to kill her, and then threatened to kill his own children. This information in the police report is sourced by none other than his own child, who called the police while his mother was being attacked.

His punishment? A plea to a reduced charge and then two months in jail – after which he returned to his normal life of making over 100 million dollars per year. His most recent fight alone brought him over $30 million.

Yet, when we hear cases like Ray Rice and others regarding domestic abuse, people turn against the athlete (as they should), their professional organizations suspend them (as they should), and their reputation is tarnished (as it should be). But, not with Mayweather, who received no punishment from the boxing commission and remains revered by fans all over the world.

Why? Why is this? Why is a man who is guilty of such atrocities still idolized by millions and laughing all the way to the bank? Are we that blind as a society to just ignore what someone does in their personal life because they give us entertainment? Entertainment that we pay them for, no less.

I, for one, will never pay any money to support this woman-beater (many other women have come forward with similar allegations against him), and perhaps it is time for more people to start asking themselves why they would, too.

As if this information didn’t make your skin crawl enough, I would suggest watching this short clip of CNN’s Rachel Nichols discussing the issue further and interviewing Mayweather shortly before his most recent fight.

Mayweather blatantly denies the truth of any of these claims despite jail time and eyewitness accounts from his own kids. He closes out the interview by saying people are entitled to their own opinions.

You can have your own opinions, Floyd, but you can’t have your own facts.

These are the people we are going to give millions of dollars to? These are the people we are going to pay to see perform? These are the people we are teaching our youth to idolize and look up to? Why? Because they’ve got a fleet of exotic cars?

Here’s an idea – let’s start giving our time, attention, and respect to those who actually make the world a better place and taking it away from those who don’t. Maybe then they would get the message.

Imagine for a moment what would happen if everyone who bought a ticket to a Mayweather fight or to watch it on Pay Per View donated half of that amount to a charity?

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Well said! If we don’t support these people and refuse to watch them “perform,” then give our money to worthy causes, the world would definitely be a better place. I think our society has become so desensitized that violence in any form has become the norm. Time to step outside the box and start becoming a peaceful society again 🙂

Years ago, a client of mine invited me to a boxing match. Her son was sparring partner for one of the greats, and was fighting that night. She introduced me to several of the boxers, including Alex Garcia, who was seated next to me. These professionals shook my hand and gave me the “limp fish” handshake. My client explained that they are so afraid to hurt a woman’s hand when they shake it, that they let you shake their hand. One of my husband’s clients was The Champ, who was always gentle, and a gentleman, with women. The younger generation of fighter seems to have a twisted idea of manhood and what being a man is about. Abusing those who are smaller, weaker, and not professionally trained is a sign of a true coward, not an alpha male. Yet today’s American males reward and worship these twisted people. Maybe we should change the term from “hero worshipping” to “coward worshipping.”